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1 Thessalonians 4 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: First Thessalonians 4, a life that pleases God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brothers and sisters, now I have some other things to tell you.
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  SPEAKER_00: We taught you how to live in a way that will please God, and now you're living in that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live that way more and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know all that we told you to do by authority of the Lord Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: God wants you to be holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants you to stay away from sexual sins.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: God wants each of you to learn to control your own body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Use your body in a way that is holy and that gives honor to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't let your sexual desires control you like the people who don't know God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never wrong any of your fellow believers or cheat them in this way.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will punish those who do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have already told you this and warned you about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: God chose us to be holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He does not want us to live in sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: So anyone who refuses to obey this teaching is refusing to obey God, not us.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: And God is the one who gives you his Holy Spirit.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need to write to you about having love for your brothers and sisters in Christ.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: God has already taught you to love each other.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, you love all the believers in Macedonia.
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  SPEAKER_00: We encourage you now, brothers and sisters, to show your love more and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do all you can to live a peaceful life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mind your own business and earn your own living as we told you before.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you do these things, then those who are not believers will respect the way you live, and you will not have to depend on others for what you need.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord's Coming Brothers and Sisters, we want you to know about those who have died.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want you to be sad like other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who have no hope, we believe that Jesus died, but we also believe that he rose again.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: So we believe that God will raise to life through Jesus any who have died and bring them together with him when he comes.
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  SPEAKER_00: What we tell you now is the Lord's own message.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those of us who are still living when the Lord comes again will join him, but not before those who have already died.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord Himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet call of God, and the people who have died and were in Christ will rise first.
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  SPEAKER_00: After that, we who are still alive at that time will be gathered up with those who have died.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will be taken up into the clouds and meet the Lord in the air, and we will be with the Lord forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: So encourage each other with these words.